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The Second part of The Nights Search

Discovering The Condition of the various Fowles of Night. Or, The second great Mystery of Iniquity exactly revealed: With the Projects of these Times. In a Poem, By Humphrey Mill

Mill, Humphrey

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To the degenerate Nobility, and new found Gentry.

To all Judges, Justices, Church-Wardens, Constables, &c.

To the Fowles of Night.

To his friend Mr. H. Mill, upon his Discoveries of Night.

To his ingenious friend Mr. Mill, upon his loftie Discoveries of Night.

To his industrious and quick-sighted friend, Mr. Humphrey Mill, upon his Night-search.

To his worthy friend Mr. Mill, upon his excellent Poem of the Night-Birds.

THE Second Part of the Nights Search, discovering the conditions of the various Fowles of Night.

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All those that would these lines digest,
Must read'em over twice at least:
Observe the poynts, how sense doth meet,
The accents, cadence, and the feet.
The humble ebbs and swelling hopes,
Of Figures, Epithetes, and Tropes.